If Sword & Sorcery Fantasy is your jam, then you're in for a treat.īack to the beginning of the book, the fact that the final battle is not a flashback but really and truly the beginning allows the whole story to move at a swift pace, which is always nice with this kind of Fantasy. Does that mean that you have to be a Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay fan to enjoy this book? Absolutely not.
Such quick demise of The Great Enchanter works fine on its own, but it works especially well if like me you are well-versed in the Warhammer universe. Now I understand what Kim Newman tried to do here by taking the well-trodden Sword & Sorcery trope of the final battle and turning it upside-down in order for us readers to go through the final battle first and then witness the aftermath instead of shutting the book down.
So you can imagine my shock when our protagonist Genevieve and her band do away with him within the first twenty pages of the book! So yeah, you know you have something of a winner on your hands when even demons from the Realm of Chaos are scared shitless of the antagonist. To give you an idea of how deranged Drachenfels is, our good enchanter even thinks that what the gods of chaos (Khorne the god of war and bloodlust, Tzeentch the god of change and mutation, Nurgle the god of plague and despair, etc.) stand for is all well and good but falls a little short of true cruelty and evil. Interchangeably used to refer to The Great Enchanter’s name and that of his dark castle, it embodies everything that’s vile and corrupt under the sun. To give you an idea of how deranged Drachenfels is, our good enchanter even thinks that what the gods of chaos (Khorne the god of war and bloodlust, Tzeentch the god of change and mutation, Nurgle the god of plague and despair, etc.) stand for is all wel In the Fantasy world of Warhammer few words can give you the shivers the way Drachenfels does. In the Fantasy world of Warhammer few words can give you the shivers the way Drachenfels does.
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